* DPM SRT (System Recovery Tool) demo video download (2.2M)This is yet another great tool that comes with DPM 2007, that allow daily backup of the whole system volume (normally the drive C:) and may be other volumes of the servers so that you can quickly recover the servers (and maybe the data) in case of hardware failure, server being unable to boot, system failure after installing a untested hotfix, etc… The protected servers do not need to be shutdown in order to be backed up.

* SAN support in DPM 2007: The DPM Server will obviously need storage for itself. This storage can be in locally attached disks or on a SAN. The data in the protected servers can also be can stored in locally attached disks or on a SAN. If both the DPM Server and the protected servers use a SAN for storage, there are interesting things your could do to leverage the SAN technologies and reduce the time for both the initial replica creation and an eventual data restore. This is something many SAN vendors have thoroughly documented via white papers. For more info: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/01/27/using-a-san-with-dpm-2007.aspx